In “The Selected Letters of THEODORE ROOSEVELT”, edited by H. W. Brands, Roosevelt had written on June 16, 1902, from Washington, to Senator George F. Hoar, that “I am striving my best, doubtless with many shortcomings, but, as I am sure you believe, with sincerity and earnestness, to hasten the day when we shall need no more force in the Philippines than is needed in New York.

THE Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Edo State chapter has described as unconstitutional the move by the 18 local government councils in the state to ban its members from operating in the councils.

I’ll begin with a response to the Orbit online by a reader of this column last week who went by the name “Oladeji Y.” I’m far less troubled by the grammatical infelicities of his response as by his distortions and ignorance of historic facts. It reflects the quality of our education that at this level, awareness of Nigerian history is scandalously low among Nigerians. As a result, national discourse frequently slips into extremely vacuous ethnic and polemical diatribe. Oladeji Y rapidly makes the discussion of the “nationality” question his own comeuppance on the Igbo.

National Union of Banks, Insurance and other Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, has called on the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Lamido Sanusi, to initiate monetary polices that would create jobs in the banking industry, rather than reforms capable of increasing unemployment in the economy.

For months now, Lanra Dabiri aka Eldee had practically vanished from the public eye causing many to wonder if he was in the country or had relocated to elsewhere.

Nigeria is a state of wide cultural diversity consisting of several distinct ethnic groups. What role do these ethnic groups play in Nigerian politics and what impact do they have on political developments in Nigeria?

If you hope to see the end of this case you must have more than nine lives. It will most probably outlast the life of this administration and distract its attention for as long as it lasts. You can bet on that!

As part of plans to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his career as a stand-up comedian, Tee A is kicking off the first in a series of live ‘TymeOut with Tee A’ concerts, Sunday October 2, 1011.

WARRI, the oil city in Delta State, wore the toga of tranquillity, penultimate Thursday, as celebrities from different parts of the country converged on the town to have a good time with criminologist, attorney, business mogul, educationist and politician, Olorogun Kenneth Omemevwa Gbagi, who turned 50.